Tamil Padam.. Gives you only a few genuine Laughs.

It’s been a very long time since I watched a movie first day first show. But got the opportunity for this movie after some quick planning. We decided around 3pm that we are going to the movie and then started from office at 5pm. Since it was Bangalore we where able to get the ticket for Tamil Padam very easily and to my surprise the theatre was not houseful too!!!

The movie started with the Spoof of Karuthamma. But here they are killing the boy babies instead of Girl. The reason? Because boys from that village (Cinemapatti) leave for Chennai and start acting as heros in Tamil Cinema and proclaim themselves with all names like Chinna Talabathi, Mini Super start etc and also disclose that they want to become the CM in the second year itself. But our hero (who is the baby) escapes the packed super Quality Kalli paal that is kept for killing him and heads to Chennai along with Paravai Muniyamma.

There are some punch dialogues which spoof Vijay and an opening song which comes similar to Vijay and Rajini films. So the movie goes like this. If I start explaining the scenes it will sound interesting to you but the genuine laughs which come out when seeing the movie is more important. To be frank it was much less than some episodes of Lollu Sabha.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lollu_Sabha

There is no story as such in this movie. May be that’s the reason why this movie fails to work out. Take an example of Scary Movie or any other English Spoof movie. There will be a basic story and the scenes will be spoofed with some major hits. But here the main story itself is a spoof of Tamil cinema. So that’s where this movie becomes a TV material rather than a material for big screen.

Siva has done justice to his role. As I saw in one of the promotions where the director was asked if Siva was not there whom he would have casted for the lead role? The director answered that the movie would not have been made then. Apart from Siva all others just share screen space with out much scope for acting. I promise no heroine who has acted in a movie before would have signed this film. Because there are scenes where her picture is shown as the symbol for women’s toilet!!! Of course it was done on the lighter mood. But I feel only a debutant can accept her role.

Direction has its flaws too. As the director was not able to extract the best performance from its cast. And some scenes are amateurish too. Hope Amudhan corrects this in his next film.

The movie has some big Mokkais too. Where in we start to scratch our head in despair and some real good scenes where we laugh till out stomach aches. But the stomach aching scenes are very few.

Things to watch out.

• Watch out for the opening song “Pacha Mancha” and the duet “O maha Zeeya” and watch out for the expression which Siva gives when he is miming “Lalaku.. Lalaku.. Dol Dappi ma”
• Watch out for the Hutch Dog scene and also the Vodapone Zoo Zoo Character in one of the fights. You will laugh a lot.
• Watch out for when Siva Says “Sema adi vanga pora” I feel Only Siva can say the word “Sema” with so much fun in it.
• Watch out for the song where the hero becomes a millionaire in just one song by doing all jobs from putting news paper to sharpening the knifes (Kathi Sanam)  to picking the coin from the Drishti Pusanikkai. (Spoof of Suriyavamsam & Annamalai)

My rating for the movie would be a 2.9/5 as I cant give a 3 for this movie and I would recommend you to watch the movie as a TV program. Then may be you will enjoy more.

Have you seen the English Spoof movie Hot shots?

Do watch it. It is a laugh riot..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Shots!